I upgraded my renderfarm from 3.7.1-alpha to 3.7.1-beta.3
and I'm seeing some odd rendertimes.
( http://www.buckosoft.com/bsac/meta/
click on the "Servers" tab)
Often, my 8-thread windows i7 runs almost twice as fast as my 4-core
Linux i5. Minimally, it is about 20% faster. (The Total FPH column)
But with this build, I'm seeing an extreme slowdown with the Windows
console version. It is running at half the speed of my i5!. (The Cur
FPH column).
These numbers can only be viewed as relative to each other.
Also interestingly, my Ubuntu 16 box is "faster" than its average while
my other 3 Ubuntu 14 boxes are "slower" than their average. I would
expect them to all weight the same against their average.
After this job is done (adding BorderChars to the credits of my
animation) I will go back and run some timed tests on the different
versions.
The Windows box *is* running flat out, pegging my CPU, with
povconsole64.exe averaging 95.96% of total CPU time of my system.
(Watching the Super Bowl ate some CPU ;) )
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dik

Am 07.02.2017 um 01:50 schrieb dick balaska:
> I upgraded my renderfarm from 3.7.1-alpha to 3.7.1-beta.3
^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please make sure to only build from tagged versions. Any other versions
may claim to be something different than they actually are (as is
currently the case for the newest code in "release/v3.7.1") or identify
with a hopelessly ambiguous version name (as is the case for many of the
revisions in "master").
Otherwise we are very limited in what support we can provide, as there's
no way we can reliably identify the versions you are referencing.
> and I'm seeing some odd rendertimes.> > ( http://www.buckosoft.com/bsac/meta/> click on the "Servers" tab)> > Often, my 8-thread windows i7 runs almost twice as fast as my 4-core> Linux i5. Minimally, it is about 20% faster. (The Total FPH column)> > But with this build, I'm seeing an extreme slowdown with the Windows> console version. It is running at half the speed of my i5!. (The Cur> FPH column).
Was the Windows version you used earlier on the i7 also a console
version (which you presumably must have built yourself), or was it an
official GUI version?
In case of the latter, what version of Visual Studio did you use to
build the beta console version?
We are currently aware of speed differences between builds created with
VS2010 and builds created with VS2015 (the latter being faster); the
official alpha builds were typically created using VS2015. Also, the
project settings for the console version may not have the same
optimization settings enabled as the official GUI version, which might
result in the console version being generally slower than the GUI version.
> These numbers can only be viewed as relative to each other.> Also interestingly, my Ubuntu 16 box is "faster" than its average while> my other 3 Ubuntu 14 boxes are "slower" than their average. I would> expect them to all weight the same against their average.
I don't see what you mean. What I see is "Cur FPH" being lower than
"Total FPH" for all five machines.

Am 2017-02-07 10:37, also sprach clipka:
> Am 07.02.2017 um 01:50 schrieb dick balaska:>> I upgraded my renderfarm from 3.7.1-alpha to 3.7.1-beta.3> ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
The alphas were tagged versions. I'm not sure why I was directed to
beta.3, it looks like you haven't released that yet.
I ran these two alphas a lot.
./povconsole64-8615129.exe
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version
3.7.1-alpha.8615129.unofficial.msvc14.win64.
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom>
./povconsole64-8353331.exe
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version
3.7.1-alpha.8353331.unofficial.msvc14.win64.
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom>
and now the beta:
./povconsole64.exe
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version
3.7.1-beta.3.unofficial+msvc14.win64.
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom>
> Please make sure to only build from tagged versions.
Yes sir.
>> In case of the latter, what version of Visual Studio did you use to> build the beta console version?
All windows versions were built with VS15 Community Edition.
>> I don't see what you mean. What I see is "Cur FPH" being lower than> "Total FPH" for all five machines.>
Ignore that red herring. The only take away is that where previously my
Windows i7 was the fastest machine, now it is slower than all of my
Linux i5s. (It *is* still faster than my Celeron :) :( )
I will do some proper tests.
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dik